Mosaic of a Scientific Life

István Hargittai is a physical chemist, Professor Emeritus (active) at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea (London), and a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Oslo). He is a PhD and DSc, and has honorary doctorates from Lomonosov Moscow State University, the University of North Carolina, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the international periodical Structural Chemistry. He has authored and edited numerous books about structural chemistry, history of science, the nature of scientific discovery, memorials of scientists, conversations with famous scientists, and others. His books have appeared in English, Hungarian, Russian, German, Swedish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and the Farsi language. His wife, Magdolna Hargittai, is a physical chemist, honorary professor, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences andthe Academia Europaea (London). She is a PhD and DSc, and has an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina. Son Balazs is a professor of chemistry in the United States and daughter Eszter is a professor of communication studies in Switzerland.